Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.